About Live Globally
The Ingrid School. Nairobi, Kenya. Since 2010.
One school. One city. A long, quiet bet on the proposition that education is the single most durable thing you can give a child.
01 The story
The school opened in 2010. The work hasn't changed since.
What we can say plainly: the Ingrid School has been open every term since 2010, has educated more than a thousand children, and is run today by a Kenyan team in Nairobi.
Education was the choice, not the only thing that matters to the families we serve, but the lever with the longest arm.
A school is the most patient institution you can build. You'll know in twenty years whether you got it right, and you'll know every morning, in between, whether the children showed up.
02 Mission & approach
Three commitments. Held for fifteen years. Held still.
Education first
Every decision we make passes through one filter: does this get a child to school, keep them there, and teach them well while they are?
Daily presence
A staff member on the ground in Nairobi checks the school each morning before classes start. That is how we know children showed up.
A long horizon
We don't measure success in quarters. We measure it in school years, in graduations, in the children who come back to teach.
Students at the Ingrid School, Nairobi.
The name
INGRID stands for ,
Incentives for Nurturing a Group of Respected Integral Community Developers. It's the school's working definition of what a graduate should become, and what every school day should quietly build toward.
- I
Incentives
for showing up, every day.
- N
Nurturing
the long, patient work of raising a child.
- G
Group
of children, of teachers, of families.
- R
Respected
as full members of their community.
- I
Integral
whole people, mind, body, character.
- D
Developers
of their communities, by their communities.
03 Theory of change
We bet on the boring, compounding things.
Inputs
Tuition, meals, uniforms, books, teachers paid on time.
Behavior
Children attend consistently. Days become terms become years.
Outputs
Completed schooling. Literacy, numeracy, a credential.
Outcomes
Expanded opportunity for the child and their family.
04 Trust
The legal, financial, and governance side, plainly.
501(c)(3) charitable organization
Live Globally is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. IRS ruling March 2014. Gifts are tax-deductible.
EIN
72-1475450
Receipts
You will receive an emailed receipt from our payment processor immediately, and an annual summary in January.
Receipts
Immediate · Annual summary in January
Independent board
An independent board of directors with no compensated relationship to operations.
Board
Independent of operations
05 Stewardship & governance
A clean paper trail.
We publish an annual report each spring covering the previous school year, enrollment, graduation, financials, and the year's most honest sentence. The latest report will be linked here once it's finalized.
From all of us at the Ingrid School
11 children are still waiting for a sponsor.
Sponsorships are pooled to fund the Ingrid School. Each sponsor is matched to a child for updates and letters.
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